God forgives ... Django never!
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| German title | God forgives ... Django never! |
| Original title | Dio perdona… io no! |
| Country of production | Italy , Spain |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1967 |
| length | 109 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Giuseppe Colizzi |
| script | Giuseppe Colizzi Gumersindo Mollo |
| production | Enzo D'Ambrosio |
| music | Carlo Rustichelli |
| camera | Alfio Contini |
| cut | Sergio Montanari |
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God forgives ... Django never! (Original title: Dio perdona ... io no ! , Italian for " God forgives ... I don't! "), Even under God forgives - neither of us ever! or two known to be bitten by a monkey , is a film from 1967. It is the first film in which Bud Spencer and Terence Hill can be seen together in the leading roles.
action
A train enters a station. All passengers except one who is dying are dead. In addition to the passengers, the train also carried $ 300,000 in gold coins that were apparently stolen by someone. Insurance agent Hutch "Dan" Bessy can reconstruct the course of events through the testimony of one passenger, who ultimately also dies. But he needs the help of his old friend and gambler Cat “Django” Stevens to clarify the situation. Dan explains to Django that the robbery was very professional and that the only one who would be capable of such a thing is a criminal named Bill San Antonio. Django doesn't believe a word of Dan at first, as he shot San Antonio in a duel some time ago , but during the night he looks back on some events from that time and comes to the conclusion that he may have only faked his death.
The next day Django sets out alone and questions various witnesses from back then. The suspicion of faked death is confirmed, which is why Django makes his way to San Antonio's former camp. There he falls into a trap, but is saved by Dan. The two find the stolen gold in a wooden box, which they hide from San Antonio's gang for the time being in the mountains. They are caught at a river with a lot of current and brought back to the camp, where San Antonio is waiting for them.
In order to find out the location of his prey, San Antonio tortures the two, but without success. Bud - one of San Antonio's people, who is considered the dumbest - lets Django trick him into helping him escape. A decision he pays with his life. In the meantime, Dan manages to free himself and kill his guards.
Back in freedom, Django challenges San Antonio to a duel with the gold coins as a bet. In contrast to the last time they dueled in a wooden hut in which the alleged corpse of San Antonio was supposed to be burned, Django chose a ravine and lit a fuse with dynamite barrels to bury the loser under the rock. Just as they are about to begin, Dan intervenes but is badly wounded by San Antonio. In the duel, Django is the faster and shoots San Antonio's arms and legs so that he can only crawl on his stomach. While Django carries Dan far enough away from the dynamite barrels, San Antonio tries in vain to break the fuse and dies from the explosion.
At the end you see Django and Dan in a carriage with the stolen gold coins. When Dan asked what to do with the gold, Django replied that Dan could do whatever he wanted with it. He himself had already got what he wanted through the settlement with San Antonio.
background
The first in a long line of successful westerns starring Bud Spencer and Terence Hill is, in contrast to the subsequent films, a serious work, full of devious gangsters, shabby robbers and brutal violence.
In Four for an Ave Maria , the action continues immediately. Mound of Bloody Boots is the third and final part of the series.
synchronization
The film was dubbed in German twice. The first version was created in 1969 in the Aventin Studios by Horst Sommer and has been shortened by about ten minutes. First the film came under the title God forgives ... Django never! in the cinemas. Four years later it was again titled God forgives ... neither of us! shown. In this version, Cat Stevens is called Django to follow up on the success of this film with Franco Nero .
In 1981, due to the duo's great success with their western and action comedies, the film - with the intention of making it funny and adapting it to the style of these films - was dubbed again. For this purpose, the film was provided with a Schnoddersynchronization at Deutsche Synchron Berlin and the sometimes tough scenes that no longer fit were cut.
Neither version is complete; 13 minutes are missing in the first version and 27 minutes in the comedy version. Due to the still existing hardness, it received an FSK-16 approval. Both versions are available on DVD.
| actor | Role name | God forgives - Django never serious composure |
Two monkey-bitten comedy version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Terence Hill | Django / Cat Stevens | Reinhard Glemnitz | Thomas Danneberg |
| Bud Spencer | Dan / Hutch Bessy | Benno Hoffmann | Martin Hirthe |
| Frank Wolff | Bill San Antonio | Arnold Marquis | Arnold Marquis |
| José Canalejas | bandit | Wolfgang Hess | Heinz-Theo branding |
criticism
“Effectively and excitingly staged, its successful gags but brutally played spaghetti westerns, which initiated the longstanding partnership of the Spencer / Hill duo. The original version of the ruthlessly violent film was subsequently re-produced into a comparatively harmless 'fun western' that was completely changed in terms of both content and character and came under the title Two bitten by a monkey or God forgives - neither of us ever! again in the cinemas. "
Trivia
Peter Martell was initially scheduled for Hill's role, but had to cancel after he broke his foot before filming began. Hill, who had recently shot blue beans for a hallelujah , was signed as a replacement for Martell.
Originally the film was supposed to be called Il cane, il gatto, il volpe ( The dog, the cat, the fox ), alluding to the original title of the Leone film Two glorious scoundrels ( Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo ). In order to build on the success of the Django film, in Germany Cat Stevens was renamed Django in the first theatrical version and the title in God forgives ... Django never! changed without actually being related to Django.
DVD release
The film was released several times on DVD: The western and comedy versions were first released individually by KSM in 2003 . In 2004, a double pack followed with both versions and an improved image under the title Two bitten by the monkey .
The unabridged long version, partially subtitled, was published by NewKSM in 2008 .
Web links
- God forgives ... Django never! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- God forgives - neither of us ever! at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ God forgives ... Django never! In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Tobias Hohmann: Bud Spencer & Terence Hill - Two sky dogs with four fists. MPW-Verlag 2001. ISBN 978-3-931608-98-9 , pp. 59-67
- ↑ God forgives ... Django never! in the German dubbing index
- ↑ Comparison of the two German versions
- ↑ Comparison of the original version and the first German version
- ↑ God forgives ... Django never! In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Note on the occasion of Martell's death ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Page to the film on heyse-online.de
